Thursday, June 9, 2011

CLOSED An Interlude: Giveaway of Ruby Red by Kerstin Gier

This post...this post is not about Jane Austen. So why is it in the middle of Jane in June, you ask?
Well, two reasons: 1) it's made of the kind of awesome that typifies Jane in June; 2) it's (partially) set in 18th century London, so as far as I'm concerned, it's apt. The way I see it, sometimes when you're craving Jane, you're really craving the time period - perhaps this international best seller will do...

But you still want to know why I'm posting about Ruby Red, right? Oh, that's an easy one: I want to give you a copy.
Check it out:

Gwyneth Shepherd's sophisticated, beautiful cousin Charlotte has been prepared her entire life for traveling through time. But unexpectedly, it is Gwyneth, who in the middle of class takes a sudden spin to a different era! Gwyneth must now unearth the mystery of why her mother would lie about her birth date to ward off suspicion about her ability, brush up on her history, and work with Gideon, the time traveler from a similarly gifted family that passes the gene through its male line, and whose presence becomes, in time, less insufferable and more essential. Together, Gwyneth and Gideon journey through time to discover who, in the 18th century and in contemporary London, they can trust.

Courtesy of Zeitghost Media and Macmillan, I can offer one lucky winner a copy of Ruby Red!

To enter:
Leave a comment telling me whether you would or would not like to time-travel and why.
Make sure I have a way to contact you (if your profile is emailable, that is fine)
US/CAN only
Ends June 14th

42 comments:

Thanks for the giveaway! Minus any time paradoxes, I'd love to time travel, either to places of historical mystery (to solve them!) or to the utopian experiments in America during the 19th century, because those are so interesting.

If I don't think about it too much, I'd love to time-travel and see some things in person.

But then I thought about it. About what my favorite time periods were really like (especially for a commoner!) Bathwater and fecal matter in the street, women not allowed to act, and they didn't even wear underwear until sometime in the Renaissance! *shudders*

I have been fascinated by the concept of time travel since I was a young girl. I love history and the idea of being able to see how it was, live in the era for a spell, meet the historical persons we study, and answer the mysterious blank areas we do not understand is thrilling to imagine. However, I am pretty sure I would not like to live full-time in an era before electricity and indoor plumbing!

I would love to time travel! Imagine being able to see important events in history unfold or even simple things like your grandparents as kids. I would do my best to not mess with the time stream because I really would not want to be responsible for any crazy paradoxes.

I would love to time travel! There are so many fascinating times and events and people and places that I would love to see and understand, mysteries to solve and lost civilizations to explore! Who wouldn't want to time travel?

I'd love the chance to time travel. What an education it would be to go some of the locations where history was being made. I would do that in a heartbeat as long as I could come back to the present every night and sleep in MY bed.

Well, you'd be able to meet 2 of them, Patricia. The other two (Keats and AUSTEN) died before the Victorian era, making them Regency (which I vastly prefer, myself, and is when I'd time travel to. Just saying.)

o i would love to time travel, only as long as i can control it and come and go as i please. id like to know how it was back in the day and id love to explore the cities as they were first being build. it would be fasinating to see what the world was like a long time ago. thanks for the giveaway!shadow_kohler@att.net

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Fun-loving swf, likes long walks on the beach -- no, wait, that's not right. I don't really know what I want to do with my life at the moment, but I know it will involve books. I am full of contradictions, which I love, and I fully intend to be an eccentric old lady, with cats and sticky hard candy and pink hair. Also, I don't take myself too seriously, which translates as 'I am an utter dumbass,' and that's just the way I like it.
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